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TIL 60% of Washington state's electricity is generated from hydroelectric power.

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epW1g TIL There is a deep-sea fish which has a transparent head with eyes pointing upwards to see prey. It was discovered and described in 1939
M7NbK TIL about Hakuho Sho, the greatest sumo wrestler ever, with 45 championships, 16 undefeated championships, and 1187 wins. He held the coveted rank of yokozuna for 14 years and has the highest top division win ratio (84.6%) out of anyone in the modern era. He retired in 2021.
E1lGd TIL the Veery, a small bird in the Thrush family, is better at predicting upcoming Atlantic hurricane seasons than our best meteorological models.
e4a6 TIL the world’s biggest traffic jam was an 18-million-car backup, on Easter weekend, April 1990, the first holiday in nearly 40 years that Germans were free to visit family on the other side of the border separating East Germany from West Germany
wZDP TIL that an American schoolgirl became famous in the USSR after she wrote a letter to the newly appointed Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Yuri Andropov, and received a personal reply which included an invitation to visit the Soviet Union, which she accepted